1) Use a brief Intro2) Keep the melody out front, but the accompaniment interesting enough to
support it. Descants, countermelodies and a variety of instruments are
fun!3) Have sufficient repeats to cover all verses. OK to use an
occasional, brief interlude between verses.4) When appropriate, repeat the chorus at the end.5) A simple ending after the last verse/chorus helps wrap things up...

Yes, it's a very basic approach, but these MIDIs serve well as backgrounds on our
web sites, and as accompaniment in group singing around the world. They
are also popping up all around the Internet!

Other types of arrangements of our songs are encouraged (classical, jazz, SATB),
and each finds its place in our web sites.

I am in search of some
free music that I can
incorporate into the introduction of my church podcast.
I am doing this for Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church www.grace.to

Do I understand this
correctly, that your midi's are ok to use on podcasting
as long as we credit newhopemusic.com? Please
help me out with this.... (Susan, from Florida)

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Many gifted saints have contributed MIDI
arrangements
of New Hope Music songs. Here are some of them !!

SONGS

Michael L. Jester (Florida)

A little about me:

I was born and grew up
in a small town West Jefferson, Ohio.
I felt God's call to
vocational ministry in 1975 and moved to the
panhandle of Florida to attend
school at Florida Baptist College.
I graduated with a degree in music
and served several
churches in Florida as a minister of music. At the
present time I am not in
a full time position, however I am very active in a
Baptist church
in Stuart, Florida. I play in our praise band and
do some arranging
for it.
I lead a bell-chime choir and sing baritone in our adult choir.

Born 1949. Grew up
on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota.
Played tuba in school band
from 4th-12th grade. Had a few accordion
lessons at about age 10, then later
self-taught the accordion,
piano and organ. Played tuba with several polka bands before joining the
Navy in 1970.

Family were not strong
church-goers, but my sisters sang in the choir at the country
Methodist Church
near us,
and I got my first exposure to sacred music this way.
My mother played
piano, and even gave lessons,
but not in my recollection. I used to
beg her to play a couple of my
favorites whenever she was at the
keyboard, but arthritis took away her abilities when she was only in her 40s.

After a short Navy career
in electronics, I worked first in
electronic instrument calibration, and
then as a computer programmer. My interest in
music was always present, and I
played keyboards well enough to perform for a
few weddings, funerals, and other functions. When I
discovered the MIDI world, my two
great interests came together wonderfully. After becoming disabled in
1999,
I have more or less dedicated myself to this pursuit. Active in my church from the
time I joined the
Navy until ... about the same time I became disabled.
I live alone (in a northern Minneapolis suburb) and
have few responsibilities,
so I enjoy helping others via the internet. I feel blessed to
have the
God-given gift of music appreciation and a smattering of talent.

Logan J. Smith received
his education at the University of Central Arkansas, where he
studied Music
Education under Dr. Ricky Brooks, Dr. Paige Rose and
Steven Smyth and
Composition under Dr. Paul Dickinson. He also studied privately
with
Musicologist Dr. Jane Dahlenburg,
Theory
teacher Dr. Carl Anthony and Trombonist
Dr. Denis Winter.

He was named Outstanding
Student of the College of Fine Arts in 2006,
served as President of the Kappa
Iota chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia froom
2005-2006 and ACPR of Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia's Province 4 in 2007.
His Senior Recital comprised of multiple
performances of his works ranging
from a Neo-Romantic Brass Quintet to a
Twelve-Tone piece, written for Mezzo-Soprano
Jennifer Crippen, to an
Electro-Acoustic piece for 6 Speakers and Computer.

He has original works
performed by the UCA Brass Choir, the UCA Orchestra,
Pinnacle Brass, the UAPB
Jazz Ensemble, contemporary music group Subito
and is currently serving as the
Staff Arranger for the UCA Marching Band
and Computer Musician for Subito.Logan is currently working as the Middle
School Director/Brass
Instructor for the Forrest City, Arkansas school district and
composing as much as possible.

"For me to live is
Christ and to die is gain." A single mom who resides in Ohio,
I am a singer-songwriter and a 1978 graduate of Olivet Nazarene University
(B.S. Music Education). I share piano-playing responsibilities at Amelia
Nazarene Church
and am employed full-time as a Stationary Operating Engineer for American
Electric Power.

Larry Holder (left) &
Elton Smith (right)
A computer programmer by day, Elton resides in Plano, Texas.
He has collaborated with Larry Holder and many other
wonderful
songwriters, including Gilberto Baretto, whose songs originally
prompted Elton to start a
musical web page.
Elton wrote a wonderful song with Rick Founds, "Nothing Can
Compare".

In an April 2001 e-mail, Hiland
describes himself as "...a freshman at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, and I am double majoring in
Music Performance (for voice) and Music Education. I graduated from
Apple
Valley High School in Apple Valley, a suburb of Minneapolis, and I've lived
in Minnesota my entire life. I've been writing MIDIs for about 3
years, but
this year was the first time I sent any of them to different web sites.
I also compose classical music, play the piano, and sing in a worship team for
Campus Crusade for Christ and Hosanna! Lutheran Church."

Rhesa is a musician,
worship leader and songwriter at Gereja
Generasi Baru Indonesia/New Generation Church of Indonesia.
He lives
in Makassar City, South Celebes, Indonesia with his wife,
Jenny and they have
two daughters, Janice & Jasmine. He received
Jesus Christ as his Lord and
Savior of his life when he was 10 years old.
He started his ministry as a
musician in 1992, and 4 years later
he became a music director and worship
leader. Rhesa is self-taught musician
but he also learned the basic of piano
from his mom and dad.

"Currently I run my
own business, PC Workstations/Island Software...
a hardware techie as well as a self-taught programmer (Clarion).
I am married with two teenagers. I attended college for 3.5 years as amusic major performing with
various bands and orchestras playing bassoon and sax.
I played with a Christian outfit and we played various places in Pennsylvania
and a little into New York. I became a Christian in 1977."

Richard says that the following web sites
are endorsed by
the "Alaskan Eskimo Biblical Artifact Excavating Research Team"
Wow, they must be good!!

Born in 1934, Kerkrade,
The Netherlands. Graduated
from college in 1955 with a degree in
Horticultural Engineering. Left for Vancouver, BC,
Canada, three days after
graduation.

For 12 years I had my own
business in Horticulture
and Pest Management. Then worked for
various provincial government ministries. In 1984
I obtained a Master of Pest
Management Degree
from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC.
I opted for early
retirement in 1992.

I did a lot of Christian
reading early in retirement and started
to realize how utterly correct God's
Word is and that
the prophecies must be accepted literally. Although
active in
choirs, I never had any music training.

Then the most amazing
happened in 1997: Suddenly I started
writing lyrics for hymns, some
translations, many paraphrases,
but most entirely new lyrics. His Call was the
first one. I
soon realized that my Lord still had a job for me and
thank Him
daily for this sudden gift. To Him be the glory!

Right click the title below
to download Adrian's MIDI performances of our songs

"I have been playing
for a contemporary Lutheran service
for 4 years (on a Kurzweil Mark 12).
Through the years I have arranged about 200 MIDI files...
mostly contemporary Christian songs.
I have done a quite a few Christmas songs and several
songs for weddings (solo music, accompaniments).

I started for my applied
music degree but only finished 3 years.
I have taken a couple digital music courses at a local college.
I teach private voice and piano lessons ..."

You have our encouragement and permission
to duplicate and share these song for all "not-for-profit" purposes
(web site background, recordings, corporate worship, give-away copies).
Please contact New Hope for other uses. Thanks !!!

From Florida to Alaska, in Tennessee,
Virginia & Colorado,
a number of web sites include our MIDI arrangements as background music.
Several sites also include a collection of our MIDIs for download, including...

For
a $ 10.00 shipping and handling charge,
a complete set of all lyrics, pdf-musicscores and midi-files
of Adrian V. Miller's hymns can be mailed
to your regular street address on a data CD.
For details please contact Adrian by E-mail at:AdrianAVMA@AOL.com